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...Count of Monte Cristo" after a sensational three week run at the Keith Memorial Theatre is running this week at the Uptown Theatre. It is one of the finest pictures of the season and has enjoyed a just popularity. The Uptown is also showing that colorful, rhythmic short film entitled "La Cucaraclfa". Based on the picturesque song of Villa's swash-bucklers it is filmed in color and presents some very capable dancing and singing...
Kelth's Memorial: "Gay Divorces"--Fred Astairo dancing and singing with the very attractive Ginger Rogers in a diverting adaptation of last year's successful musicomedy. Music is good and the dancing excellent although a bit overdone. Fred Astaire's gracefully rhythmic tripping will dolight you if you like the modern way of doing things terpsichorean...
Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition?a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
...Always" is typical of the simplicity Berlin works for, unless he happens to be writing a variety piece for a show. Sophisticates may prefer the rhythmic tricks of George Gershwin, the tongue-twisting verses of Gershwin's Brother Ira. But running his own publishing house for 15 years has taught Berlin that people buy music they can play and sing. Irving Berlin is the very active head of Irving Berlin Inc. He may work all night in his East End Avenue apartment. (Lately he has been busy on the broadcasts, planning a revue for next autumn.) He may occasionally...
...idea, such as he envisions it, that is, of dominating importance. Artistically, this quality of the inner idea is far removed from that of Greek sculptors like Polycleitus and Lysippus, but is nearer to the spirit of the Chinese Hsieh Ho, to whom inner quality and rhythmic vitality was a necessity for any worthy art. The obvious exaggeration and distortion, which appear to be a part of the search for this inner idea, have, of course, had their influence on certain phases of modern sculpture and even painting; the remarkably simplified planes and contours, the stylized treatment of details, have...